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Women Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles.
- There prevails among men of letters, an opinion, that all appearance of science is particularly hateful to Women; and that therefore whoever desires to be…
- Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands.
- Women can spin very well, but they cannot write a good book of cookery.
- There is always something a woman will prefer to the truth.
- Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears
- As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.
- Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
- Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so,…
- Marriage, Sir, is much more necessary to a man than to a woman; for he is much less able to supply himself with domestick comforts
- A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first…
- Dr Blair . . . asked . . . whether he thought any man of a modern age could have written such poems [Ossian] .…
- Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they…
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- The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
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- When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched… — Chinua Achebe
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